What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Sergeant Rock]

Listening to the first LP from this box set of Haydn's Prussian quartets: B flat op.50/1 and C major op.50/2




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Now listening to Thomas' Mignon. Such an under-rated piece.

I've known the overture since I was a brat (conducted by Lenny on a LP of popular overtures). Maybe it's time to hear the entire opera.

Sarge

[jlaurson]

Listening to the first LP from this box set of Haydn's Prussian quartets: B flat op.50/1 and C major op.50/2

Sarge

You don't happen to have a scanner with which you could make a high-resolution scan of that image on the LP box, do you? That would be lovely to have when doing the op.50 post.

[mahler10th]

TURE RANGSTROM
COMPLETE SYMPHONIES
NORRKOPING SO
JUROWSKI

Rangstrom will always be in my top ten list.  These works were considered modern at their time (turn of the Victorian Century), and they certainly are, though having roots in Nordic traditions and legends.  Rangstroms music is OUTSTANDING and...entertaining! 
I was introduced to the tumbling scales exciting melodies of Rangstrom by members in this forum in 2008!  Ach!  Yets another thing I missed when I was 'out', the wonders of musical exploration in GMG.   

[Sergeant Rock]

You don't happen to have a scanner with which you could make a high-resolution scan of that image on the LP box, do you? That would be lovely to have when doing the op.50 post.

Here you go: 1024px, 481KB. If that's too large, or too small, let me know.

http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/oct2010/P1142993_1200.jpg

Sarge

[jlaurson]

Here you go: 1024px, 481KB. If that's too large, or too small, let me know.

http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/oct2010/P1142993_1200.jpg

That will do very nicely! Thanks much.

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm enjoying this far more than I thought I would.




Sarge

[Florestan]

I'm enjoying this far more than I thought I would.




Sarge

No wonder... 

[Sergeant Rock]

No wonder... 

Well, I knew I liked the artist...it was the music I wasn't sure of 

Sarge

[karlhenning]

No wonder... 

Glad I wasn't the one to say thus ; )

[Florestan]

Well, I knew I liked the artist...it was the music I wasn't sure of 

Sarge

Well, I think that the right artist can make even the baddest music pleasant... and I trust you'll agree with me. 

[marvinbrown]

  WOW WOW WOW.....



I can not say that I am severely passionate about Sibelius' symphonies but I am listening for the first time to his tone poems and I have fallen in love with them.  The Oceanides, Finlandia, Night Ride and Sunrise, Pohjola's Daughter and the Lemminkainen Suite have left me breathless!  I much prefer the tone poems to his symphonies.

   Fellow Sibelians would you kindly permit me to make the argument that Sibelius is a far more accomplished composer of tone poems than of symphonies?  If I am not permitted to make this argument would you allow me to argue that Sibelius is the finest composer of tone poems there ever was??  (I have heard Richard Strauss', Tchaikovsky's, and Dvorak's tone/symphonic poems and I must say that Sibelius has got them beat!!

  Well??

  marvin

[karlhenning]

Well, I knew I liked the artist...it was the music I wasn't sure of 

Depending on the performer, who cares about the composer, Sarge! : )

[Sergeant Rock]

Depending on the performer, who cares about the composer, Sarge! : )

Exactly right. I could even listen to Dorothee's Dittersdorf 

Well, I think that the right artist can make even the baddest music pleasant... and I trust you'll agree with me. 

Indeed I do 




Sarge

[Brahmsian]

  WOW WOW WOW.....

I can not say that I am severely passionate about Sibelius' symphonies but I am listening for the first time to his tone poems and I have fallen in love with them.  The Oceanides, Finlandia, Night Ride and Sunrise, Pohjola's Daughter and the Lemminkainen Suite have left me breathless!  I much prefer the tone poems to his symphonies.

   Fellow Sibelians would you kindly permit me to make the argument that Sibelius is a far more accomplished composer of tone poems than of symphonies?  If I am not permitted to make this argument would you allow me to argue that Sibelius is the finest composer of tone poems there ever was??  (I have heard Richard Strauss', Tchaikovsky's, and Dvorak's tone/symphonic poems and I must say that Sibelius has got them beat!!

  Well??

  marvin

Well, I still like Strauss the best in the tone poem field, but Sibelius is certainly right up there.  I really love En Saga.

[Lethevich]

Fellow Sibelians would you kindly permit me to make the argument that Sibelius is a far more accomplished composer of tone poems than of symphonies?

I too prefer his non-symphonic orchestral music, but I wouldn't venture to say it is better (or even equal) to the symphonies. The magnitude of his achievement with the cycle of seven I feel is greater, regardless of how much I enjoy the other works. Try to listen to the Bard if you have access to it, it's my favourite alongside the Oceanides.

[karlhenning]

  Well??

Well, Marvin, I am a great Sibelius fan, so I'll match your enthusiasm for his tone-poems.

Tchaikovsky didn't really write "tone-poems" per se.  So apart from the fact that one allows an indivbidual artist to have his own voice, I don't think the "smack-down" really works here.  The Romeo & Juliet Overture-Fantasy is about entirely different things to Nightride and Sunrise.

Even in a case like Dvořák, who wrote pieces actually adhering to the notion of a tone-poem . . . I don't think we could say that either Dvořák or Sibelius "beats" the other, any more than we could in the realm of the symphony.  It ain't a horse race ; )

[Sergeant Rock]

Fellow Sibelians would you kindly permit me to make the argument that...

No. Permission denied. But I understand your passion for the tone poems.

Sarge

[karlhenning]

Sarge has ruled! And with justice, might I add.

[Sergeant Rock]

Oh my...I've hit the big Seven O O O...I feel so old.

Sarge